Improvement in the mode of reducing old rails and fag-ends of rails to bars



v I 4 ZSheets-Sheet 1. J. C. IIILL, A. C. PILLINER & W. WILLIAMS. MODEOF'REDUCING YQLD RAILS AND FAG ENDS 0F RAILS N. PETERS.PMOTO-LITHOGRLPNERl WASHINGTON. D C.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,894, dated Apri124,1877; application filed Be it; known that we, JAMES CHARLES HILL, ofOaktields Works, in the parish of Llantarnam, iu the county of Monmouth,England, iron-master, ALFRED CoLEEIcK PILLINER, of the same place,engineer, and WILLIAM WIL- LIAMS, of t e saule place,rollturner, haveinvented new and uset'ul Improvements in Rolling Rail-Ends and Old Railsinto Billets or edge, and passed through the eyes represented in Fig. lto the left ofthe cutters, and thus a finished bar or billet is obtainedot' the section represented at Fig. 5.

n-this Way we produce sound bars or billets from rail ends and old railsWith nlucligreater certainty than heretofore, and with a great saving inlabor.

Flatfooted rails we treat in a similar inanner.

Fig. 6 shows the first reduction made in the flanges of a footed rail byroliiug, as above billets or bars. describe( Fig'. 7 shows the secondreduction.

For this purpose we first pass the rail-end. Fig. 8 shows the lastreduction previous to to end; and, lastly, we roll the portions on edgeto the form desi-red. We use olls such l of rolling to reduce theflanges, then dividing as are shown in the annexed drawing' at Fig. l.We pass the rail-end through the eyes represented on the let'thand sideof the rollers, and so Hatten down the heads of' the rail lirst to theform indlcated at Fig. 2, and then to the form indicated at Fig. 3. Thenthe work is taken to the cutters. (Shown ou the right hand side of Fig.1.) These are circular shearing-blades, combined with rollers. Therollers lay hold ofthe ilattened heads on either side, and produce afurther slight reduction in substan tially as hereinbet'ore described.

JAS. OHAS. HILL. A. C. PILLINER. WM. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses to the signature ofthe said JAMES CHARLES HILL, 9th March,1877:

J. D. PAIN, H. GREASE, his clerk.

Witnesses to the signatures of the said AL- FRED CoLERIcK PILLINER andWILLIAM WILLIAMS, 7th March, 1877:

J. D. PAIN, N otarg/ Public, Newport,]l/[on., H. GREASE, his cleric.

longitudinally, and afterward rolling on edge, i

